Quotes About Auditory

Poetry is meant to be heard.

I really like books that you can kind of hear as much as think about, that are so graphic and visual.

Radio is such a perfect medium for the transmission of poetry, primarily because there just is the voice, there's no visual distraction.

I don't make music for eyes. I make music for ears.

Sounds are something that I always emulate - I'll walk around, and if a coffee pot goes off or a phone rings, I'll often mimic the sound. To me, everything's got a voice.

These days people wallow in enormous masses of sound.

I like things that catch your ears.

The ear in man and beast is an evidence of blood and high breeding.

Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language.

Music isn't for the eyes, it's for the ears

I never heard my music played the way I heard it in my head.

A musicologist is a man who can read music but cannot hear it.

Our problem is that sound is not important in our culture. We know the world from the visual, not from the other senses. I had to be taught other ways of understanding.

Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.

Nobody can hear you read music.

When I was on acid, I would see things like beams of light and I would hear sounds that sounded an awful lot like car horns.

As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound.

Most people just half-watch TV. They watch TV while they are doing many other things in the environment of their home. So, what they are doing goes through their ears as much as through their eyes. In television, the narrative and characters are in the foreground of everything, because you are watching TV as you do other stuff.

My role on the planet is to bring the power of sound.

A mate of mine said recently said a lot of stuff sounds like you're listening to it outside, but also like you're surrounded by it, and I think that's quite similar.

Grace was pouring out everywhere, from hidden sounds, into Els's damaged auditory cortex. And all that secret, worldwide composition said the same thing: listen closer, listen smaller, listen lighter, to any noise at all, and hear what the world will still sound like, long after your concert ends.

Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them.

Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them.

Contrary to what TV and movies have told you, it's nearly impossible to have a hallucination that you can both see and hear—the mentally ill either just hear voices, or just see things, due to how the brain is wired.